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This year, Sanford
Collegiate held its eighth
annual Terry Fox Volleyball
Tournament on February
13th. Although the weather
was against us, all of the partici- Toews, who is not on the
pating sabres pulled through for an student council, but helped
excellent day of volleyball.
cook and serve hot dogs all
throughout the lunch hour.
The costumes this year
were very unique, both in the
Of course, the tourrecreational
and
competitive nament could not have hapleague, with a team of superheroes pened without all the behind
and some sandbaggers on the the scenes work. Leadership
courts. The grade nine class im- students worked for countless
pressed everyone with their team hours to prepare for the tourspirit and tie dyed t-shirts! Some nament, organizing game
costumes looked pretty difficult to schedules and collecting
play in, but Joshua Van Walle- money. The day would not
ghem took the gold when he came have happened without Ms.
dressed up as Cruella Deville with O’Connor leading the band of
his band of Dalmatians.
troops as the faculty advisor. I’m
sure we are all in agreement that
The
student
council
the Terry Fox Volleyball Tournaraised three hundred dollars
ment could not have happened
through the selling of hot dogs and
without her!
various other treats at lunch for
CancerCare. Because of the horAlthough fun was had by
rendous weather, the council could all players, the students knew why
not barbeque outdoors but with they were really playing. In hontheir quick problem solving skills our of Terry Fox, Sanford Collethe dogs were ready in a flash. A giate raised eight hundred and ten
special thanks goes out to Carrie dollars for the Terry Fox Founda-
tion. Like every year, Sanford
showed that you can do something
great and have fun while doing it.
—Emily Lowes
Sanford Collegiate
Issue 5 Mar 21/14
Creative Corner
Entertainment
Marcus and I leave the cafe under the disguise of father and daughter. We walk for several blocks before I feel it,
the sensation of being watched. Casually, I turn and look up at Marcus, pretending to beg daddy to go the sweets shop,
and look back. Down the street, about half a block away, is the man from the cafe. I tighten my grip on Marcus' hand and
look ahead.
Pompeii
Pompeii is a 2014 disasteradventure film that is set in 79 A.D., in the
Roman metropolis that sits under Mount
Versvius. This film is produced and directed
by Paul W.S. Anderson who was involved in
creating Resident Evil franchise, Alien vs.
Predator, Death Race 1 and 2, and The Three
Musketeers. Anderson calls Pompeii
“probably the most spectacular disaster of
the ancient world.”
With this film I wanted to be sure that everything was scientifically and historically
accurate so I looked online and I found an
interview with the director Anderson. The
question that was given to Anderson was
that, ‘Many people are familiar with what
happened in Pompeii, but do you think audiences will walk away from your move having learned something new?’ Anderson
answers, “In terms of the science, we tried to
be as accurate as possible. Again, it is not a
In this film Anderson offers up a
documentary; it is a movie, so sometimes we
rich-girl poor-boy variation that finds tyhave compacted the time period a little bit to
coons daughter Cassia (Emily Browning)
falling hard for Britannia gladiator slave
known as The Celt, but later revealing his
true name to be Milo (Kit Harington). Milo
is a bit of a horse whisperer, which helps
him get closer to Cassia. His immediate
problem is that there is an upcoming battle
in the great area with a noble fighter Atticus,
who has been promised to be freed if he
wins. Meanwhile Cassia’s immediate problem is the Roman Senator Corvus, (Kiefer
Sutherland) who comes to Pompeii to bargain with her father, and is determined to
make Cassia his wife. Surprisingly, Corvus
was also in charge of the Roman battalion
that slaughtered Milos’s family 17 years ago.
During the battle Mount Vesuvius begins to
erupt, spitting molten lava decking the city
and the coastline. However, Anderson takes
a bit of time off and focus’ on the lovers
close-ups where ash overflows around them.
This sappiness somehow makes Pompeii a
good, if flawed film.
keep the intensity. But really, all of the volcanologists and historians we have showed
the movie to have given us high marks for
both scientific and historical accuracy,
which is what we are striving for.”
Given that this film wis not just good on its
own but that it is historically accurate makes
it even better if you're a fan of Roman history. If you're an average film-goer, then,
frankly, you can do better. I rate this film 7
½ out of 10 .
-Emily Labby
“He knows,” I whisper.
“It's okay, this isn't the first time,” Marcus reassures me, and he's right. A few years after I left home, people started coming after me. There are many people in this world who would like to use my talent of creating beasts for their own
gain, to make armies for themselves. But they shouldn't know I can change my own age, even I only found out I could do
that last year.
“Relax,” Marcus says. I nod and we keep walking, though I can't help but keep glancing back, and every time I do
the man is closer. Suddenly, Marcus pulls me into an old bookstore. As he leads me to the back I see the man from the
cafe walk past. He doesn't even look inside. I sigh in relief and start heading back to the front door, when Marcus yanks
me back.
“Hey! He's gone, we can go home now,” I say. I try pulling him forwards but he won't budge. He opens the back
door into an alley and pulls me around in front of him.
“What are you doing?” I yell, struggling to escape his grasp. His hand tightens around my arm and I cry out.
“Sorry,” he says, then throws me into the alley. I shield my head with my arms and smack into the pavement. Hissing in pain, I roll onto my back and look up. The man from the cafe is standing above me. He grins.
“Here she is, just like I said, Terry,” Marcus says. He takes a step into the alley and closes the door behind him.
“Here she is indeed. So she's really seventeen? Amazing. I would kill to be able to make myself younger,” Terry
sneers. Something about his tone tells me he isn't lying. I turn onto my stomach and start to shuffle away when he places
a heavy boot on my back.
“Yeah, so where's my money?” Marcus asks. Terry pauses, pats the pockets on his jeans and leather jacket, and
shrugs.
“You know what? I seem to have left it in the car, how's about I take the girl there quick, grab your cash, and come
right back. Okay?” Terry smiles and the weight of his boot eases just a bit.
“Not funny. Just give me the money,” Marcus puts out a hand and takes a step forwards and keeps his gaze locked
on Terry. I turn my face away and close my eyes. Please let them keep arguing.
“Whoa, man, calm down, I have it right here,” Terry says. I hear him unzip his jacket and the sound of rubbing
leather as he reaches into the inside pocket. “Ah, here it is!”
There's a click, then the distinctive sound of a bullet being fired, then a thud. Forgetting my task, I open my eyes
and shriek when I see Marcus' face in front of mine, eyes wide and dead, a fresh hole in his forehead seeping blood.
To be continued…
-Allison Friesen
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Brain Teaser
Advice
Dear Sanford Solvers, Lately I
have been feeling so down about myself? I
walk through the hallways of Sanford so
insecure about my body weight. I want to
fit in and be the skinny ideal girl, but I
really don’t want to go on a diet. How can
I find a way to be satisfied with my body
image?
One of the most amazing things
about our world is that each person is different; whether that is our skin color, our ethnicity, gender, and our body shape and size.
However, sometimes the way we see our
Game of the Week
Word Ladder
A word ladder is a Victorian word play game invented by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking Glass. By changing one letter at a time you change one word into an antonym with the same number of letters. Try to
make the change in as few alterations as possible.
Example: Cold to warm
COLD
CORD
Dear Sanford Solvers, How do
most of us deal with stress? Ther e ar e
many answers, and this could be a very
imprecise answer but it needs to be dealt
with. Stress can get to be a very serious
problem at times, seeing as it can give us
major anxiety. So to get through it all, what
can we do?
The answer is simple. Take a break.
Just do something that you want to do, or
feel you need to do. Whether it's school (we
all know it's a major contributing factor),
home or work- after a long day of one or all
of these, just sit down and watch a show and
ourselves can affect our self esteem. We tend
to think that our unique differences are terrible flaws. One of the most difficult things to
do is to admit and believe that we are beautiful human beings. The most important ways
to feel satisfied with who you are, is to look
yourself in the mirror and to say three things
that you love about yourself. You may feel
like you sound conceited, but in all reality
you are making yourself feel better about
your self image. The best way to develop a
healthy body type is to stay active and eat
healthy. Staying active does not mean overexercising. Try and do one active thing a day
like going to a hockey practice or doing
some sit ups at home. Eating healthy does
not mean dieting. The best way to eat
healthy is to make sure you get a full serving
from each food group. Follow the Canada
Food Group guide for the correct amount of
portions. The last way to feel happy with
your body image is to not care about what
other people think about you. People will
judge us for our differences, but if you don’t
listen to what they say nothing can bring you
down. Everyone is beautiful!
have a night to yourself. Not much to it, but
All in all, giving yourself a pause
something stress-free.
really helps. We all get to our breaking
point, and even if going out is too much-stay
Having time to think about things
in, and do absolutely nothing. If it relaxes
other than the work load you have and to
you, it's all that matters.
have nothing in your mind for a while, can
really clear your head for the next day. Kind
of like giving yourself a fresh start. We all
deserve to calm down, because things are
pretty hectic, Throughout seasons of sports,
piles of homework, many tests and whatever
else we have to deal with, it doesn't just go
away. And it is very difficult. All the endless
effort we seem to put in, may not seem like
enough. We need to just stop for a second.
CARD
WARD
WARM
- Alison Friesen
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Editorials
The Music Historian
News from the Nines
The Kinks Low Budget
“I just want to get good grades,
make new friends, get honor roll and graduate in my graduating year, 2017.” These are
the goals of the grade nines. In elementary,
the teachers all tell you that high school will
be really hard, but when I asked people how
they thought last semester went, they thought
it went really well. “The staff were great and
my classmates are nice.” said one grade 9
student.
was once in grade 9. However, you probably
I’ll keep looking forward to the day
didn’t get 2nd place in gym riot when the when I’m not just a little grade 9, In Septemgrade nines were expected to lose…
ber, I’ll be a little grade 10!
I ran a small survey and asked the grade - Rebecca Hein
nines what classes they wanted to take next
year, here are the results:
This semester, lots of the grade 9s
just want to pass one specific class, such as
Social Studies and Science. Others just want
to get involved in the school, such as making
the Sabre softball team. No matter what your
dream is, the grass isn’t always greener on
the other side, its greener where you water.
It’s a big step from grade 8 to grade
9, but not so much academically. In grade 8,
you are the kid that everyone looks up to, and
this year, well, this year you’re just a little
grade nine. But despite this, lots of us have
found a way to get involved in the school in
whatever interests us, even if it means being
the only grade nine on the Sabre Scoop!
Falling, Pressure, National Health, (Wish I
could fly) Like Super Man. Low Budget, In a
Space, Little Bit of Emotion, a Gallon of Gas,
Misery, Moving Pictures. Most of these
songs have to do with life problems and have
a concept to them. This album in my opinion
is a fun and non-psychedelic Dark Side of the
Moon, since they are both life issue/concept
albums.
meaning and/or, just like The Kinks in general, I would encourage this album not only
for the concept in it, but how good and classic this album is.
-Liam Herzberg
While listening to this album, I always seem
educated in the end and in a fun way since
the lyrics have so much meaning. Especially
the song Little Bit of Emotion, where he
explains in his lyrics how a lot of people
don't want to show emotion for anyone.
The album was released in 1979 and the
(Wish I Could Fly) Like Superman talks
track listing is: Attitude, Catch Me Now I’m
about how he wish he could be superman and
clean up the crime in
the city. Attitude is a
pretty self explanatory
title. He talks about
how keeping your
attitude at a bad level
changes a lot of you
whether you think it
or
not.
I don't want to spoil
the album for you
readers but I encourage you to go and
listen to it. Not everyone is like me and
listens to classics all
the time but if you’re
someone that’s in to
lyrics with concept,
Everyone should know what I’m
talking about, because everyone reading this
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I remember the first time that I heard
this album. My mom pulled it out of the
record shelf in the bottom of the old wood
wall unit that we have. To tell you the truth I
didn't like the album when I first heard it. I
guess because it sounded different than the
type of music I was listening at the time.
Later on while washing dishes I thought it
wouldn’t hurt to give the album a try again.
Hearing the album a second time I seemed to
like it a lot better than when I first heard it. I
started to enjoy this album so much that I
downloaded it and put it on my mp3, and
every time I cut the lawn I listened to this
album.
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Awareness Day
Ti-Rant
Weather Woes
Turn on the news lately and there
will be something about frozen water pipes,
water main breaks, potholes or rail car shortages. For all of the aforementioned inconveniences, we can thank Old Man Winter
(maybe he’ll leave if we do). Let’s start with
our frozen pipes. I understand that we have
had a very cold season, but shouldn’t a notoriously cold city be prepared for such things?
We have not earned the nickname
“Winterpeg” for nothing! Water is one of
the necessities of life, something we humans
cannot live without. The city should have
immediately reached out to those affected
and supplied them with bottled water and
reimburse those who are continuously running their taps to prevent their pipes from
freezing.
On the topic of frozen pipes, I don’t
think you can listen to a traffic report without
hearing about yet another water main break.
So many people have been unable to drive all
the way to their homes because their road
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decided
to
turn into a
lake.
When
this water gets
into
cracks
and holes in
the street, it
freezes,
expands and, in
turn, expands
the
hole.
Then it melts,
and
more
water enters, and then freezes, and expands
the hole. And melts, freezes, and expands
the hole. Eventually we are left with the
potholes, AKA giant tire eaters, Winnipeggers are all too familiar with. In some cases,
they are so deep that rebar in the roads is
being exposed, and street car rails are seeing
daylight for the first time in over 50 years.
They may appreciate being uncovered, but
the feeling isn’t mutual.
In case those who don’t live or work
in the city are feeling left out of all this fun,
there is a problem specifically for those who
farm or work for an elevator. There is a
shortage of rail cars, resulting in grain not
being removed from the elevators, so they
aren’t allowing farmers to haul in more grain
for profit. This means farmers aren’t getting
paid, so they can’t buy seed for the supposedly coming spring. If there is a shortage of
canola, wheat, barley, flax, corn, sunflower,
pea or bean products come next winter, we
will know why. Talk about a domino effect!
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Despite all this trouble, people have
still found it in themselves to reach out and
help others.
Friendly neighbours have
stepped up to the plate and allowed their
neighbours with frozen water pipes to run
hoses from their taps through windows for
water. Let’s hope the city is just as kind and
reimburses these good neighbours’ water
bills.
-Jamie Maes
Through the month of April the student council is putting on an “Awareness Month”. The purpose of Awareness Month is to bring to attention topics that aren’t really talked about. Topics include Culture Day, where the student council will showcase the Irish Culture. Special
guest McConnel School of Irish Dance will be putting on a performance of traditional Irish dancing. Blue Day is a day to raise awareness
about moods and mood disorders. Healthy Relationships Day is a day focused on healthy relationships between peers and significant others.
Environment day is a day to make a push for a better earth! Plastic shopping bags will be collected in front of the office and the student
council will be selling metal reusable water bottles to promote a better environment without extra waste. The plastic water bottles will be
removed from the drink machines to promote even further a world with less waste.
The dates for each day of Awareness month are:
Culture Day- April 10th
Blue Day April 15th
Healthy Relationship Day- April 23rd
Environment Day- April 30th
-Colby Guimond
Sports
Sanford’s Curling Triumph
Our four years of curling as a Sanford Sabre are over. It was an extremely fun
and tough ride. It came with many wins,
losses, heartbreak, celebration, and many
memories. Curling at Sanford were some of
the best curling years of our lives and we
wouldn’t change them for anything. We got
to play with a lot of different people and
made lots of new friends along the way.
In grade 9 our zone team won two
games all year and didn’t even make it to the
second bonspiel. When we were going into
grade ten all we were hoping for was to make
it to the second bonspiel, and we did. Even
though we didn’t get to the final zone spiel in
grade ten we knew that we could one day win
a zone banner for Sanford. Going into grade
eleven the only thing on our minds was that
if we can’t win the banner this year it was the
end for us. That year we went on to a 9-0
record and won the zone four banner. We
were off to provincials! At provincials our
record was 3-2 and we finish fourth overall.
Our year ended in heartbreak but we all knew
that we had one more year and that no one
could stop us.
ing because he just wanted us to go out there
and play the best we could. He was as the
kind of coach that made sure you and your
team were all on the same page and made
every game played worth it no matter what
the outcome. We both know that in the up
coming years of Sanford curling there will be
a ton of success and we wish all of the curlers
Then it was our final year. We had
and our coach Mr. Kroeker a ton of luck!
the same team as last year and the only thing
we had on our minds was winning provincials. Our year started out rough but we
-Brandon Radford and
fought back and won the zone banner again.
Noah Miller
At provincials we finished 4-2 and finished
second over all. Overall, our whole high
school curling careers were huge successes in
my eyes and it was a great four years. None
of this would have been possible without our
great coach Mr. Kroeker. No matter if we
won or lost he made every game worth play-
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Basketball Life Lessons
Four years of high-school basketball
came to a surprising end for our varsity girls’
basketball team earlier this month. In the
Zone IV final, we lost a heart wrenching 5349 to our rivals Altona. This was our second
loss to this team in our four years of basketball at Sanford Collegiate. Having won this
game, our team would have advanced to an
inter-zone against St. James, giving us a
chance at representing our school at provincials, which are being held in Swan River
this year. Although we didn’t accomplish the
outcome we hoped for, we played our hearts
out that game and gave it all we had. It was a
well fought, fair game. As Coach Sinnock
always said, “It doesn’t matter if you lose, it
matters how you lose.”
road trips, stopping at McDonalds after an
away game and playing in tournaments every
weekend. But most importantly, we will miss
our coach, Ms. Sinnock, and the rest of the
team who will not be graduating with us this
year.
Lastly, we would like to thank Sinnock for not only being an amazing coach,
but for being an amazing friend. Over our
four years at Sanford Collegiate, she has
taught us several life lessons. She’s taught us
about attitude, positivity, and commitment.
She’s always been there for us, on and off
the court, as well as inside and outside of
school. As a coach, teacher and friend, we
can truly say she is someone we look up to.
Throughout our four years of
high school basketball, there have been
countless lessons learned. Out of all of
Sinnock’s post game life lessons, the one
that has stuck with us the most is the
lesson on attitude. In tough games, Sinnock would always tell us to play with
character and a positive attitude. As an
athlete, remaining self-composed is a
very difficult task during the heat of the
game. Sinnock made it her number one
priority to make sure our team was calm
and sportsmanlike. She would constantly
remind us that it doesn’t matter what the
parents, refs, or opposing team members
were saying. The only part of the game
we could control was ourselves.
Best wishes to our fellow graduating
players; Cailin Becker, Maizy North and
Sam Payette and best of luck to the returning
players next year. We will miss you!
-Courtney Champagne and Taylor Leonzio
On Winning the Winnipeg Free Press Division Championship
Our boys' hockey team had a perfect
season, only to lose three games in total. The
boys had an eleven game winning streak, and
put up 63 points this season.
On March 12, 2014 afternoon, the
Sabres had a tremendous season come to an
end in a fitting manner, dominating the Lord
Selkirk Royals with a 6-1 win to capture the
Winnipeg Free Press Division Title. After out
-shooting Selkirk 14-0 in the first, the guys
did not relent and earned a 2-0 lead heading
into the third. After Selkirk scored early to
close the gap to 2-1, the Sabres exploded for
4 goals in 6 minutes to put an exclamation
point the game, the final series and their
season. A season that included the following
highlights:
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High school basketball has been
a wonderful experience, and we know we
will miss it dearly. We will miss the long
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We are so thankful for all her hard work, and
we will miss her dearly!
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earning a 21-1 regular season rec- luck in the future and thank them for their
commitment to the program. We would also
ord,
like to thank all the players for their hardgoing undefeated on home ice all work and dedication over the past 6 months
and for “finishing the job!”
season,
I had the chance to talk to some of
compiling a 37-3 record on the
the players following their championship
season,
game. For many of our boys hockey team,
they said that this season had felt like a perfect season from the start to the end. “Perfect
sweeping all three play-off series on Season” sums up a lot of how our boys felt
route to a division title,
about this year, and our school would like to
congratulate the boy's on a great season and
and finishing their season on a 17
they're victory.
game winning streak that began in
-Wyatt Baldwin
early December,
A big thank-you goes out to all the
students, staff and parents who were at the
winning the Morden Tournament rink to support the guys on Wednesday and
(12 teams),
all season long. The coaches and management would like to wish the graduating playfinishing third in the Brandon Tourers (Ben, Steve, Mark, Chad, Riley, Chase,
nament (24 teams),
Fraser, Kyle, James and Bronson) best of
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